Insurance is SO Expensive!

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Originally Posted by Marilyn

Wow, 400 Brittish pounds per month is a lot. That's $782 US. That's $9,384 US per year!! And we are being told that you have low cost national healthcare. Do you pay anything at all when you go to the doctor or hospital?? We have lower annual premiums for our private insurance, but it pays about 60 to 80% of the bill and we pay the rest. Sometimes emergency care and some tests are covered at 100%. After our deductable of course.

No we do not have to pay the doctor or hospital, if we get a prescription from the dr for drugs then we pay 7 pounds per item no matter what the cost of drugs are.

We used to get dental care under the national health but now more and more dentists are going private so we now pay for that which is expensive, at the moment I am looking in to insurance for that.

400 pound is on my husbands earnings so the more you earn the more you pay. That also will give a small pension at 65 not sure what that is at the moment but do not think any more than 100 pounds per week.

People do complain about our hospitals and doctors but do date I have always been happy with the care provided.